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Milan-Cortina 2026 closes with ceremony in Verona

Today at 00:08 AM, via BBC News

IOC president Kirsty Coventry says the athletes “showed us that the Olympic Games are a place for everyone” as she closes this year’s Winter Games.

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Baftas 2026: The winners list in full

Yesterday at 23:14 PM, via BBC News

One Battle After Another won six awards, followed by I Swear, Sinners and Frankenstein, with three each.

Africa

‘Emotional’ Mourinho should apologise – McCarthy

Friday at 13:43 PM, via BBC News

Benni McCarthy says Jose Mourinho should admit his “mistake” following the Benfica manager’s post-match comments after Real Madrid’s Vinicius Jr claimed he was racially abused.

Sport

Eze ‘wanted to prove something’ as he torments Spurs again

Yesterday at 23:14 PM, via BBC News

For those who have followed Eberechi Eze’s career, the sight of him wheeling away to celebrate an important goal towards the end of the season will not come as a surprise. And he ‘proved something’ as he scored twice as Premier League leaders Arsenal beat Tottenham 4-1.

Education

Why is the Send system being overhauled – and what might change?

Yesterday at 17:05 PM, via The Guardian

Labour expected to outline sweeping changes to special educational needs provision with council debt surging

Labour is due to reveal its plans to overhaul the special educational needs and disability (Send) system on Monday. But why are changes needed? And what changes are ministers likely to propose?

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Science/Tech

Long Before Tech CEOs Turned To Layoffs To Cover AI Expenses, There Was WorldCom

Yesterday at 23:34 PM, via Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes:Jeopardy time. A. This company spurred CEOs to make huge speculative capital expenditures based on wild unverified claims of future demand, resulting in the layoffs of tens of thousands of workers to reduce the resulting expenses, harming their core businesses. Q. What is OpenAI? Sorry, the correct response is, “What is WorldCom?” In 2002, WorldCom, the...

Science/Tech

‘Open Source Registries Don’t Have Enough Money To Implement Basic Security’

Yesterday at 22:34 PM, via Slashdot

Google and Microsoft contributed $5 million to launch Alpha-Omega in 2022 — a Linux Foundation project to help secure the open source supply chain. But its co-founder Michael Winser warns that open source registries are in financial peril, reports The Register, since they’re still relying on non-continuous funding from grants and donations. And it’s not just because bandwidth is expensive, he...

Science/Tech

Researchers Develop Detachable Crawling Robotic Hand

Yesterday at 21:34 PM, via Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot writes: Researchers have developed a robotic hand that can not only skitter about on its fingertips, it can also bend its fingers backward, connect and disconnect from a robotic arm, and pick up and carry one or more objects at a time. This article in Science News includes footage of the robotic arm reattaching itself to the skittering robot hand, which can...

Science/Tech

AI Now Helps Manage 16% of America’s Apartments

Yesterday at 20:34 PM, via Slashdot

Imagine a 280-unit apartment complex offering no on-site leasing office with a human agent for questions. “Instead, the entire process has been outsourced to AI…” reports SFGate, “from touring to signing the lease to completing management tasks once you actually move in.” Now imagine it’s far more than just one apartment complex…At two other Jack London Square apartment buildings, my initial...

Health

A Cancer Detection Test Fails in Major Study

Friday at 16:25 PM, via New York Times

A closely watched clinical trial in Britain that screened blood for early detection of cancer did not show a reduction in later stages of the disease.